Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz (born 1945 in Rochester, New York) is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including The God of Loneliness, Selected and New Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010); Failure (Harcourt, 2007), winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Living in the Past (Harcourt, 2004); and The Holy Worm of Praise (Harcourt, 2002). He is also the author of Deep Within the Ravine Viking Penguin, 1984), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; Like Wings (Viking Penguin, 1978, winner of an American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as a National Book Award nomination), and the poetry chapbook, My Guardian Angel Stein (1986). His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Slate, Poetry magazine, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, and Five Points, among others, and he is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Poetry to Israel and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He has also received, among others, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (1981), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (1985), as well as the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine. Schultz is also the author of a memoir, My Dyslexia, published by W.W. Norton in 2011, and a new book of poetry, The Wherewithal (W. W. Norton), forthcoming in February 2014.

Schultz founded The Writers Studio in 1987 after teaching at New York University for 10 years, where he founded and directed their graduate writing program from 1984 to 1988. The Writers Studio utilizes a method that emphasizes technique and emotional connection, making writers aware of the distinction between the actual writer and a narrative persona. Today it features an online program, workshops in New York City, San Francisco, Tucson, and Amsterdam, as well as a celebrated reading series in New York City.

Philip Schultz lives in East Hampton, NY with his wife, sculptor Monica Banks and their two sons, Elias and August.

Works

• Like Wings, Viking Penguin, 1978
• Deep Within the Ravine, Viking Penguin, 1984
• My Guardian Angel Stein, State Street Press, 1986
• The Holy Worm of Praise, Harcourt, 2002
• Living in the Past, Harcourt, 2004
• Failure, Harcourt, 2007
• The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010
• My Dyslexia, W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
• The Wherewithal, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

References

• The Writers Studio: Director's page

External links

• The Writers Studio
• Philip Schultz interviewed about his memoir My Dyslexia, Oct. 2011
• The Villager, "Inside The Writers Studio" by Jennifer DeMerritt, January 3-9, 2007
• [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D61339F933A2575AC0A9669C8B63&scp=2&sq=leslie+berger+%2B+New+Yorkers+%26+Co. The New York Times, "New Yorkers & Co.; Open Your Checkbook, Then Just Open a Vein" by Leslie Berger, September 10, 2000]
• Poets & Writers Magazine, "Trying on Voices for Size" by Duncan Bock, March/April 1998